My Gran is 90 and lives with my parents. I have a loving relationship with her and I'd do anything for her.
My parents have just gone away for a week, I've moved in with my kids to look after her. My parents look after her 24/7 and totally need a break, I don't mind at all!
She won't get out of bed today, she won't wash herself or brush her hair and won't eat a thing and says her back is too bad to get out of bed (although I think she'd managed to go to the toilet in the night)
I said shall I call the doctor? and she got really cross with me and said that she was fine lying on her back looking out of the window. I keep sitting on her bed and chatting about stuff and making her cuppas and getting her inhalers and paracetamol etc, and I keep asking her to eat something but she just won't!
I think she might have accidentally wet in the bed as there's a bit of an ammonia smell in her room and a stain on the sheet, but it could be an old stain IYSWIM? I'm not sure.
I just need to get her out of bed to check, but I feel mean saying why I want her out of bed, I can't just ask if she's had an accident?
I am so sad. My Gran was vivacious, active, fashionable and charming and now she's like a little old lady.
I posted this in dementia as the district nurse (who came when she had a bad fall) said it was a possibility that she had it, but parents won't do anything about it.
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Dementia and Alzheimer's
I think my Gran might have dementia. Parents gone away for a week and I'm looking after her. I need some advice.
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pinkrocker · 19/09/2016 16:03
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